Word: gaol
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Crestfallen out of Yerovda Gaol last week came the two "Indian Moderates" whom Viceroy Baron Irwin commissioned last July to seek a compromise with Mahatma Gandhi. These emissaries-Sir Tej Bahadur Sapru and Mr. Jayakar-have visited all the principal Gandhite leaders in gaol, especially the potent Pandits Motilal Nehru and Jawarhalal Nehru (father & son) sometimes called "the brains of the Gandhi movement." After a final conference last week in Yerovda Gaol, disgruntled Sir Tej and Mr. Jayakar were forced to admit that they had failed. By six weeks of zealous effort they had brought Viceroy and Mahatma not into...
...boisterous Bill & Lem were not clapped into a Moscow gaol last week. Higher Soviet authorities, closely attuned to U. S. white opinion, suspended the sentence of the lower court, ordered Bill & Lem deported, "because they are persons imbued with the spirit of race prejudice and therefore dangerous, menacing persons to have in Russia...
Died. Alfred Day Payne, Amarillo (Tex.) lawyer, who a month ago con- fessed that he had intentionally murdered his wife by hiding a bomb in her automobile (TIME, Aug. 11); by his own hand, when he exploded a vial of nitroglycerin in his cell at the Potter County gaol in Amarillo...
...waiter in the Paris nightclub Chez Florence spilled hot gravy down the back of Dagmar Godowsky, cinemactress, daughter of Pianist Leopold Godowsky. When Mile Godowsky screamed her Argentinian escort rose, destroyed a bottle of champagne over the waiter's head, went to gaol...
...York, Herbert Hoover saw a Negro knock another Negro down. Going to help the stricken party, Herbert Hoover was arrested with the two belligerents, taken to gaol. Negro Hoover was exonerated, freed...